Chord Mojo- audioton impressions (longish)
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| Posted on January 28, 2016 at 09:33:35 | ||
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Location: Oakland, Califonia Joined: May 30, 2001 |
I went ot Stereo Exchangehere in NY to hear the currently much talked about Chord digital sound. The friendly folks at the showroom set me up with a mac and the Mojo. I used my headphones and went into their Itunes library. It sounded good, smooth, nice spatial sepraration between instruments, estended, musical, from Beethoven's 6th to Honky Tonk women, including Miles and Black Sabbath. Then I switched to Amarra. I was blown away, the level of detail, the fundamentals, the smoothness, and tempos all increased very clearly. I keep thinking it was as if the music emerged from this absolute silence and formed power-fully, with momentum and nuance, extended, detailed, PRAT. Actually reminded me of a really good LP12 set up, minus the clumped in soundstage. I am smitten. Maybe there is a bit of a hollow in this power-full soundstage, that silence permeates throughout the blooming sounds if I look for flaws. But when I listened to my iphne thought e same headphones it was the familiar smaller ragged sound. The transparency of this thing is remarkable really being able to hear the difference between software much more dramatically than in my homne system, as well as the difference between my ususal RHA's (slightly boomy) and the back up Ety's Hf3 (lean and rather bright). BTW Black Sabbath (the song)was as glorious as I've ever heard it. The 'harmonies' of Keith singing along w/Mick, the rythmic nuances of the bass in So What were really impressive. I would love to hear what Ayre's Codex sound like, has any one been able to compare?
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